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Examples of our religious foundations abound. The national motto, "In God We Trust," is imprinted on all of our currency. We refer to God in our national anthem and in "America." President Reagan has proclaimed a Jewish Heritage Week as well as declaring 1983 the "Year of the Bible." The words "Anno Domini" (translated: "in the year of our Lord") or "A.D." have pervaded our time references, are chiseled into nearly every federal building, and are found in every Presidential document. And the most telling of all, we publicly continue to celebrate the birth and crucifixion of Jesus Christ...
...antisatellite gadgets were invented because space is already militarized. Both superpowers use satellites for secret communications and to spy on each other's military operations. When arms-control treaties refer to "national technical means" of verifying compliance, they essentially mean reconnaissance satellites. The U.S. is exceptionally dependent on its military satellites and so has more to lose in a star war. For now, however, the most critical U.S. spies in the sky are, at 22,300 miles, far too high to be jeopardized by current Soviet ASAT weapons...
...have come from the U.S.-trained Salvadoran army may be inflated, there is little doubt that the guerrillas have all they need. The insurgents claim that during the first five months of 1983, they seized 1,700 assault rifles, 27 mortars, 20 grenade launchers and 37 machine guns. Rebels refer to their rifles as "my gift from Reagan...
...word carousel, Tobin Fraley informs us, is derived from the old Italian carosello, meaning tournament. The term came to refer to the medieval Moorish practice of training mounted swordsmen on wooden horses attached to circling beams. In The Carousel Animal (Zephyr; 127 pages; $19.95) Fraley, an Oakland, Calif, restorer of antique merry-go-round animals, closes the distance between this forgotten martial art and the magic of the amusement park. Gary Sinick's photographs of stallions frozen in mid-prance, oversize rabbits, frogs and chickens reveal the wealth of detail and coloration that distinguished the finest carousel craftsmen...
...pays homage is among the more limited of these roles, perhaps because it is set so firmly in one particular milieu. The songs that make up this essentially plotless revue about a man and woman--each alone on a Saturday night in the same apartment building--could not possibly refer to any society but that of upper-middle-class singles in Manhattan. There are references to reading the Sunday Times, or Saturday night prowling various bars, putting up with parents and their querulous worries about their kids in the Big City. And there are the songs themselves, with their laments...